Lew's AUTHOR BLOG

Several friends have expressed an interest in the research I am doing for my novel-in-progress, tentatively titled CHOOSING HITLER.

I organize my books on Goodreads.

• The books I have read or plan to read are listed in my book category “ch-research.” …

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2231715-lewis-weinstein?format=html&shelf=ch-research. 

• Those I have reviewed are listed in the category “ch-reviews.” … 

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2231715-lewis-weinstein?format=html&shelf=ch-reviews

I welcome additional suggestions.

Here are some of the books I have so far found particularly useful in my research …

• Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (Nowicki)
• Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth (Shandler)
• The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood (Mahlendorf)
• Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Blobaum)
• Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Weitz)
• Justice Imperiled: The Anti-Nazi Lawyer Max Hirschberg in Weimar Germany (Morris)
• State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda (Bachrach)
• The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany (Lewy)
• Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 (Pease)
• Life is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl (Zborowski)
• Stranger in Our Midst: Images of the Jew in Polish Literature (Segel)
• Munich 1923: The Story of Hitler’s First Grab for Power (Dornberg)
• When Money Dies: The Nightmare Of The Weimar Hyper Inflation (Ferguson)
• Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate, 1918-1939 (Watt)
• Address Unknown (Taylor)
• There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok (Eliach)
• Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (Michlic)
• Hitler (Kershaw)
• Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (Hoffman)
• The Catholic Church and Antisemitism … Poland 1933-39 (Modras)
• On The Edge Of Destruction: Jews Of Poland Between The Two World Wars (Heller)
• Why Hitler Came Into Power (Abel)
• The Coming of the Third Reich (Evans)
• The Face Of The Third Reich: Portraits Of The Nazi Leadership (Fest)
• The Anguish Of The Jews: Twenty Three Centuries Of Antisemitism (Flannery)
• Hitler And The Beer Hall Putsch (Gordon)
• Mein Kampf (Hitler)
• Hitler, Vol 1: 1889-1936 Hubris (Kershaw)
• Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich (Large)
• Adolf Hitler (Toland)
• Justice at Nuremberg (Conot)